Is there an easy way to use an common external push-to-make button to trigger a cuelist?
The only workaround that I have in mind is using a simple DMX replay unit with button input to send a DMX-in signal that I map within Onyx or something similar with MIDI.
Before I go this “complicated” path, I wanted to check whether somebody knows a simpler way.
The application is simple: We have an exhibition booth where we have an interactive corner where visitors shall be able to trigger a certain lighting & video playback (sequence with higher priority) for this section, while everything else stay untouched. After this visitor triggered sequence released itself, this area shall be controlled by the “normal” Onyx show again .
StreamDecks are very popular for this sort of application. Custom buttons can be created using a software package called Companion. These buttons can then be configured to output OSC network messages to ONYX to trigger playbacks.
Thanks for the great idea.
While the customer currently thinks of one of these massive “STOP” buttons out of manufacturing, the StreamDecks are an interesting option.
Without knowing more about the system back bone, another option could be to use the NETRON EN12 (or similar model). These units have 10 contact closure options that can allow you to trigger cues (ONYX or built in) based on the contact triggered. Depending on how you structure your cues (thinking of a release macro at the end of the action) you could use a “gaint” E-Stop button that fires whatever cue and then can be reset.
This would need a little more designing/ researching to verify if it will work. But maybe @Edward could give his thoughts based on his knowledge of the product(s).
Anyway, just another idea that maybe outside the box thinking.
A nice idea. Using this approach, the E-Stop button would have to be manually “switched off” once the cuelist had completed, to allow ONYX to take back over control of the EN12.